Pants: A fast, scalable build system

Pants is a build system designed for codebases that:

• Are large and/or growing rapidly.
• Consist of many subprojects that share a significant amount of code.
• Have complex dependencies on third-party libraries.
• Use a variety of languages, code generators and frameworks.

Pants supports Java, Scala, Python, C/C++, Go, Javascript/Node, Thrift, Protobuf and Android code. Adding support for other languages, frameworks and code generators is straightforward.

Pants is a collaborative open-source project, built and used by Twitter, Toolchain, Foursquare, Square, Medium and other companies.

If you are only using Python in your project, check out pants.readme.io/docs for documentation using the improved V2 implementation.

Getting Started

• Installing Pants
• Setting Up Pants
• Tutorial

Cookbook

The Common Tasks documentation is a practical, solutions-oriented guide to some of the Pants tasks that you're most likely to carry out on a daily basis.

Pants Reference Documentation

• BUILD Dictionary
• Options Reference

Powered by Pants

• Find out who is using Pants

Contributing to Pants

• Pants Developer Center
• Code of Conduct